New York’s Bike-Share Debut Delayed Until Spring

New York City’s bike-sharing program won’t launch until next spring,
Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Friday, as the vendor tapped to run the program continues to struggle with software problems.

The delayed Citi Bike program is a blow for Bloomberg and his transportation commissioner, Janette Sadik-Khan, who have touted bike-sharing as a way to expand the city’s existing transportation network and continue a decade-long boom in cycling in New York.

“The software doesn’t work,” Bloomberg said on his radio show Friday morning. “We’re not going to put it out until it does work.”

The mayor said he expected the system would now launch in the spring: “Hopefully, the software will work by then.”